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| Title: | The Structural Ecology of Health and Community |
| Authors: | Young, Frank W. |
| Keywords: | health
history of health
Medical Technology
socioecominic status
ecology of health
public health |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | Internet-First University Press |
| Abstract: | Frank W. Young first became interested in the social causation of health in the context of
development studies, where the central question was and still is "Why are some
communities better off than others?" "Better off" was understood to mean income
and wealth, but around 1970 the range of criteria was enlarged to include the
"physical quality of life," especially life expectancy and infant mortality. The new
criteria opened the door to broader sociological research on development and to
the study of what we now call "population health." This book explores the issues that impact public health. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1813/11809 |
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